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Stretching while shaving legs
Does it count? I have been wondering this, lately, while reaching to shave my legs and feeling a little stretch in my hamstrings or reached down to pick up my senior dog, Miggy, and making sure I’m bending down safely – am I in the middle of an impromptu deadlift/squat variation? It feels like a…

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Shifting Currents
I have been interested in the history of swimming for a very long time. During the pandemic, I even recorded a series of videos demonstrating each of the strokes described in Everard Digby’s 1587 book “De Arte Natandi” (The Art of Swimming). One of the best books around on swimming history is Karen Eva Carr’s…

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Bike Lanes are Beautiful. Why Would People Want to Rip Them Out?
I rode about 14 km total in Toronto last week, most on bike lanes. The total distance was less than 10 km, since I rode much of the same route going to and from my destination. A good chunk was on Bloor, which was busy, with many more bikes parked at bike racks alongside the…

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Christine’s ready to head back to TKD

I’m looking forward to heading back to class on Thursday night. I’ve missed my TKD friends, I’ve missed my instructors, and I’ve missed being part of a group activity. But mostly I have missed moving in those specific ways, those specific patterns (literally – we do a lot of patterns), and enjoying the process of…


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Happy belated fourth birthday to my left knee!
The end of August is a busy time of year! It’s the blog’s birthday. It’s my birthday. And it’s also my left knee’s birthday. I tend to forger that one but these photos showed up as memories in my social media newsfeeds. I underwent a total knee replacement of my left knee on August 29…

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